Is It Love? Stories

It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning…

Mario was back for another adventure. But this time, it was personal. Hiroji Kiyotake, the director of 1992’s Game…

For the most part, the internet is a screaming void where nobody can agree on anything—not even what to scream…

For as long as Mario, Luigi, Bowser, and Princess Peach have existed, another group of characters have been waiting…

The Half-Life franchise contains some of the best and most beloved video games ever made. While the vast majority of…

Yoshi, upon its debut, was a bright green agent of change in the Mario franchise. In its first appearance, it bursts…

When I think about diversity in last year’s crop of big-budget games I can see the bright spots. Some of…

How do you evolve a franchise with an almost-static main character? You look to his antagonist: Bowser, King of the…

Between One-Punch Man, baseball man, and multiple nods to popular fantasy franchises, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is…

Wow, what’s a year it’s been. I memorized the pattern of tiny paint bubbles on the wall behind my computer monitor.…